Mapping the aliran of the academic discipline of entrepreneurship: A ...

delimitations. Yet Foucault also offers the opportunity to see the role of the discipline in a
larger context; “archaeology has freed us to shift to the question of what role this
pseudoscience, this doubtful science, plays in the larger context.” [Dreyfus and Rabinow,
1983, p117]. I believe that this ‘larger context’ refers to the interaction between disciplines,
either on a trans-disciplinary or an interdisciplinary bases, being part of Foucault’s move
away from the “not ion of the Cartesian s ubject, the subject whose existence depe nds on its
ability to see itself as unique and as self contained, distinct from others …” [Mills, 2004,
p30]. The emergent discipline needs to find a balance: between its own identity and trans-
disciplinary interaction; between dubiety and credibility; between representationality and
irrelevance; and so forth.
2.5.5.13 By creating an archaeological representation (aliran) of the discipline of
entrepreneurship, using gravitas as a measure, it may be possible to illustrate the
discipline’s current status in seeking this balance. This is outlined in more detail in Part
Three.
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